Table of Contents

Introduction: Can Indigenous Peoples' Experiences of Colonisation Reshape our Constitutional Language?; Indigenous Self-determination in the Commonwealth of Nations; Self-determination or 'Deep Colonising': Land Claims, Colonial Authority and Indigenous Representation; Consensus and Sovereignty: Rethinking Policing in the Light of Indigenous Self-determination; Patriarchal Whiteness, Self-determination and Indigenous Women: The Invisibility of Structural Privilege and the Visibility of Oppression; Trust, Truth and Fatuity; Why Norfolk Island But Not Aborigines?; Maori Legal Forum: Representation Issues and the Maori Land Court; Indigenous Political Representation: Identified Parliamentary Seats as a Form of Indigenous Self-determination; Indigenous State Relations in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Contractual Approach to Self-determination; Kanaka Maoli: Right of Self-determination; The Search for a More Appropriate Form of Government in Solomon Islands; Indigenous Self-determination: Is Canada as Good as it Gets?; Indigeneity, Self-determination and Sovereignty; Indigenous Self-determination: Dispute Management; Sovereignty as a Trojan Horse: How the Convention on Biological Diversity Morphs Biopiracy into Biofraud; Commenced Constitutional Business? Reflections on the Contribution of the Saami Parliaments to Indigenous Self-determination; Conclusion. 'A Change of Sovereignty': During the Age of Empire; Index.

About the Author

Barbara Ann Hocking is with the Faculty of Law at the School of Justice Studies at Queensland University of Technology. In 2005 she was awarded the Lilian Penson Fellowship at the Institute for Commonwealth Studies at the University of London.

Reviews

"[R]einforces the idea that Indigenous affairs is 'unfinished business' and clearly states there is still a long way to go in achieving Indigenous rights to self-determination." --Sonia Smallacombe, senior lecturer, Charles Darwin University